Several Members of Parliament reacted to their suspension from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and expressed the views that the government was in haste and unjust manner suspended them when they raised the question of security breach in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
BJP MP Prathap Simha, on whose authorisation passes were issued to two persons who jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber on Wednesday in a major security breach, knew one of the accused as he hailed from his constituency Mysuru and he would come to Simha's office very often, sources said.
Meanwhile, the motion for suspension of eight opposition MPs - Benny Behanan, VK Sreekandan, Mohammad Jawed, PR Natarajan, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, K Subrahmanyam, S Venkatesan and Manickam Tagore - was moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi.
Earlier, SR Parthiban of the DMK name was also included in the list but was later revoked after he was mistakenly suspended.
Several MPs have reacted to the decision of their suspension from the Parliament
On the suspension of 14 MPs from Parliament, MP Danish Ali said, “...This included one such MP who was not even present in the House. He too was suspended. God knows how is this country running..."
On her suspension from Lok Sabha for the remainder of the winter session, DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi says, “There is an MP who has actually given the passes for these (accused of Parliament security breach) people to come in. No action has been taken against that MP. Whereas we saw what happened in Mahua's case. Without even the inquiry being complete, she has been disqualified and this MP is not even suspended. He's inside Parliament with us. And when we protested and we want the PM and the Home Minister to come and give a statement in the House, they're not prepared to do that. And when we protested, they are suspending all the opposition MPs. First suspended five, then they suspended nine people. So how is this democracy?..."